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“Please hurry, Duke!” Wagner yelled

“You’re awfully worried about so to Wagner as an excuse to pull away from Olaf and walk toward the other cell

Wagner was pressed up between the bars that separated his cell froh would let him touch the other man His concern see guilty I kneas

“I knoas stupid and crazy, and I’uys left hi by now if he was going to be all right?”

“Yeah,” I said, and I was suddenly afraid not of Bobby’s beast but of what Ias a real shapeshifter or vaer than a norhting for my life, so I hadn’t held back Had that been more than Bobby’s body could handle? God, it would suck if I’d accidentally killed hi so hard to save him

“Could you have snapped his neck?” Newman asked

“The uppercut was the erous for spinal injury, and he moved just fine after that”

“If he was huston said from the doorway

“You mean a concussion?” I asked

“Can shapeshifters get those, and if they can, do they heal from them better than humans do?”

“He is not dead,” Olaf said

“Good to know, but I’ve never seen a shapeshifter take this long to heal fro like this If he’s not seriously injured, he should beby now,” I said

“Can he change into a biform?” Olaf asked

“I can’t keep up with the new politically correct language I thought biform meant any shapeshifter and bipedal e used for half-man forms?”

Olaf seeave one nod “Bipedal would be for leopard- it proves that biform and bipedal are too close”